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- ↑ Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919)
Vol. 2, p. 55.
BRAG, Thomas, and Mary Emmerson, Dec. 23, 1686. CT.R.
- ↑ Source:Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700 say that the Brag found in records is wrong.
He cites first Source:Sedgley, George Burbank. Genealogy of the Burbank Family, which says "The printed records of Gloucester [sic, Ipswich, not found in Gloucester] has it that he married Mary Emerson of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Dec. 23, 1686. Some genealogists doubt this, and say that there might have been an error in copying, and they also say that that the Emerson Genealogy states that Mary Emerson married Thomas Bragg. Prof. Verrill, a descendant, says that Thomas Bray married for a second wife Mary, daughter of Francis and Hannah (Cockerill) Collins. Some one else say that he may have married Mary Symonds. No doubt his wife's first name was Mary."
He cites second, Source:Essex Antiquarian (Essex Antiquarian), Vol. 11, p. 101, which show Thomas m. Mary Emerson in 1626 [obviously a typo], apparently based on the Ipswich records, and saying definitively, "she was his wife in 1722. He had a wife in 1732."
It is easy to imagine Bray and Brag being misread, and the fact that it is spelled with one 'g', instead of 2, as is the more typical form of Bragg (e.g., all three other Brag/Bragg marriages in Ipswich in late 1600s), suggests this is likely what happened. That said, Torrey's proof that Brag is wrong is somewhat less than overwhelming.
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